Karl's Windows Admin Tips & Tricks:

October, 2010

Thank you for reading Karl's Windows Admin Tips & Tricks - I love it when you link back to us. This is the highest form of a compliment you can give us! So thank you Paul Bauer or Bauer-Power.com for posting about my recent article entitled how to remotely enable remote desktop. His post on it...

I have been in love with SSD or solid state drives for several years now. As the prices drop it becomes more logical to include them in desktop purchases. I feel that it boosts the systems boot time and general responsiveness when using a SSD.
Now does the price difference negate the performance...

It is no secret that I love technology and that I want my daughter to embrace it as well. Since she was young she has used a variety of computers. The one she took to the best and is now able to use almost on her own is our HP Touch Smart desktop computer. I can just sit her down in front of it...

Don't have a mouse handy? Do you need to open the task manager on Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 2003, 2008 or Windows 7? All you have to do is hit this key combination. It is an oldie but if you are not farmiliar with it this will be an all out godsend!
Control + Shift + Esc
Boo yah! Task Manager...

So you want to connect to your office's VPN from your shinny new Windows 7 computer. These are the steps you will need to do to set it up:
Open network and sharing center from your Control Panel or start menu, then choose the option:
Set up a new...

I have been seeing more and more infected Windows computers in my day to day activities. I thought I would detail how I scan, clean and get back up and running here on my ITKE blog.
The first thing I do is download the latest version of Malwarebytes for free from http://www.malwarebytes.org. I...

I used to recomend heavy users use a seperate hard drive for storing the WIndows swap file. In Windows 7 and Windows Vista you can use a portable USB drive as a system data repository using a feature called ReadyBoost. You can use any type of usb drive for this function. Plug in the...

We all remember the original iPhone cut and paste problem or the lack of cut and paste. Well it appears when Microsoft drops their brand spanking new Windows Phone 7 for the holiday season it will be void of copy and paste functionality. Microsoft says that functionality such as being able to click...

The company I work for during my day job absolutely hates Microsoft Exchange. Don't ask me why but they do. So we have been running IPSwitch's IMail for many years now and it does the job and it has not gone down in the 6 years or so we have been running it.
Today I get a phone call that we need...

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A blog that teaches you various tips and tricks on Windows operating machines. Use Karl Gechliks' 15+ years of Network Administration to your benefit. I'll write on a range of topics from Group Policy and User Administration to system recovery, Raid configurations and best backup practices.